Live, where you live. This is abc 7 news. I think apple is going to be contending with a lot of questions that come out of this. Apple, out with an apology tonight to iphone owners for deliberately slowing down older phones. But, is that enough . Good evening. Apple said that the whole thing is really just a misunderstanding. A tech expert we talked with tonight said that the apology could have a big impact on the Company Going forward for better or for worse. We are in the newsroom with the story. Reporter starting in late january, apple is dropping the price of replacement batteries from 29 to 29 instead of 79. This move may cause more iphone users to hold on to the older models. Its hard to say if it will repair Consumer Confidence in the product. Hmmm, okay. You know, i unfortunately had to be one of the people that paid more. Reporter suzanne spent 79 dollars on a new battery for her iphone six. The s the Text Messages wo take a long time to show up. She is thankful for the apolog
Users to hold on to the older models. Its hard to say if it will repair Consumer Confidence in the product. Hmmm, okay. You know, i unfortunately had to be one of the people that paid more. Reporter suzanne spent 79 dollars on a new battery for her iphone six. The s the Text Messages wo take a long time to show up. She is thankful for the apology and the offer to sell the new batteries for 29. Im glad they came out and admitted it. I think its shady that they did not tell the public what they were doing but im glad they are remedying it. Reporter app he will said that they would not intentionally shorten the life of any apple product. The executive director of cnet news said that apple has to rebuild consumer trust. They are a consumer company. What they have to contend with is they have broken trust, and they have to repair it somehow. Reporter he said that dropping the price of battery replacements is a good step. Lowering the cost of the replacement and doing the right thing as much
Live, where you live. This is abc 7 news. I think apple is going to be contending with a lot of questions that come out of this. Apple, out with an apology tonight to iphone owners for deliberately slowing down older phones. But, is that enough . Good evening. Apple said that the whole thing is really just a misunderstanding. A tech expert we talked with tonight said that the apology could have a big impact on the Company Going forward for better or for worse. We are in the newsroom with the story. Reporter starting in late january, apple is dropping the price of replacement batteries from 29 to 29 instead of 79. This move may cause more iphone users to hold on to the older models. Its hard to say if it will repair Consumer Confidence in the product. Hmmm, okay. You know, i unfortunately had to be one of the people that paid more. Reporter suzanne spent 79 dollars on a new battery for her iphone six. The s the Text Messages wo take a long time to show up. She is thankful for the apolog
Schuylkill expressway no problems or delays at all, any overnight construction took the week off as well, it has been a easy start, to the morning. Cool shot of the ben franklin bridge. Wind giving glory a work out there on the camden toll plaza but looking good in and out of downtown philadelphia. Fire location, in new jersey, we will tell but that in a second. Another fire location right here in north philadelphia at second and cambria with local detours, otherwise, mass transit as we have been mentioning all week operating on a modified schedule on the buses, trains, trolleys. Thanks, bob. We are tracking breaking news in Burlington County a fire fighter injured fighting a house fire that broke out a couple hours ago. We know multiple people have been transported to the hospital with injuries. Lets get tout jenny joyce on the scene this morning, hi there, jenny. Reporter good morning, thomas. Fire crew is here working to put out hot spots this fire started three hours ago, and right
Chopper three over route 413 just one of the roadways getting pretreated with a light layer of brine. Our Holiday Weekend is shaping up to be a bitter one. Im rahel solomon. Aim he jan carabao. Jim donovan is off today. We could experience coldest winter kay in american 100 years. Katie fehlinger is tracking snow and cold, in the weather center. What is the very latest. That snow will be relatively light but it is a system that will really serve one main purpose and that is, to make it feel that much colder, reenforce is what already out there in terms of that really, really chilly air , and that means new years day especially will be incredibly cold. Let me just get you out the door right now. I continue to show you, the feels like values as opposed to the actual air temperatures very good reason for. That simply because thinks the better gauge that you want to use when dressing in order to be appropriately layered up here, to be outside in the kind of cold that were experiencing righ